Ramie fibres are split from the plant by fingernail and twisted into threads by hand.
Cyanide can be found in some household products, such as acetonitrile false fingernail remover.
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But this week, McNeely, 32, was scratching his back as usual when his fingernail caught on something.
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And I don't know why I do, except perhaps for what we'd named the dolls - toenail and fingernail.
Intel is counting on efficiency gains from squeezing transistors together so tightly that a billion fit on a fingernail-size chip.
The Microsoft researchers are using tiny, cheap sensors, each the size of a fingernail, that can easily fit on an armband.
He imagines the boy painting the woman with lotion, and then using his fingernail to write his initials on her back.
"First class" pertains to body parts of saints--a fingernail of the Apostle Paul, say, or a strand of the Virgin Mary's hair.
If commercialized, this atomic memory could one day store all of the movies ever made in a device the size of a fingernail.
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Ray looked out of the bedroom window, tilted his chin, opened his mouth just a touch, and tapped his fingernail against his bottom teeth.
The chip, etched in 0.25-micron detail -- state-of-the-art for graphics processors -- fits 10 million transistors onto a space about the size of a fingernail.
Only later is it discovered that wrapped within it is a fingernail-sized piece of circuit board with a tell-tale identifying mark - the number one.
Now a spy, traitor or whistle-blower can put gigabytes of data on a fingernail-sized card and pass them on anonymously, irretrievably and all but instantly.
She squints at me and holds a blue-lacquered fingernail to her lips, as though she were about to land a luxury suite down at the Motel 6.
In consumer terms this means it will take everything you know as the Windows operating and put it inside a semiconductor chip the size of your fingernail.
Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
But he said examiners were able to identify and take samples of each organ for testing, as well as hair and fingernail samples and dirt samples from around the wooden coffin.
In his official "findings of fact, " however, Fidler said only that Lee recovered a small white object the size of a fingernail and that the object was never presented to prosecutors.
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Ditas explained Spanish men to me in pantomime (I barely spoke the language) a few days after I arrived: "If you give one your fingernail, he'll take half your arm, " was her gist.
Sue Rothwell, from north west Durham, an NHS speech and language therapist with a voice like a fingernail scraping across a blackboard, said foundation hospitals "would really make a difference to the healthcare of this country".
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It's a bit difficult to master, but we find it's more efficient if you put a little bit of your fingernail into it -- not too much, of course, you don't want to scratch your precious reader.
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Infinera's optical routing gear is built around an all-in-one optical networking chip--which it calls a Photonic Integrated Circuit--that shrinks down the work done by a hodgepodge of parts in boxes from other vendors onto a pair of chips smaller than a fingernail.
It'd be hugely valuable to have the entire bottom of the screen act as a trigger, so you can focus on what's downrange of the lens instead of how to direct your fingernail to land on the speck-of-a-button that'll trigger the shutter.
The deeper the needle penetrated, the more flexible the nail. (The squeamish may wish to note that this test can be done using a fingernail clipping.) In a test of 30 people, Dr Towler found that the nails of those with osteoporosis were significantly softer than those of people without it.
And our meal at 21212 deserves every spike of its sparkler - it's a humorous and clever romp without losing sight of deliciousness: plates look like elaborate puzzles, ingredients deliver snort-making surprises like parchment made from mushrooms, or smoked salmon with fingernail-sized buttered crumpets, all in a room that looks like Shrek's pulling parlour.
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